MMW 11 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: New World Writing
14 Dec 2016
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People coexisted with different levels of complex societies: metal tools and industrial societies took over. New guinea was imperialized by australia (last 200 years: new guinea: stone tools, villages, australia: metal tools, centralized govt. , cargo. Whites dominate modern world in wealth/ power: minorities have thrown white colonial domination. Minorities still behind in wealth/ power: aboriginals subjugated, dominated, decimated, or exterminated. Ad 1500 european worldwide colonial expansion tech and political differences modern inequalities. Eurasia, americas, sahara agriculture, herding, metallurgy, politics, writing conquest, genocide, and epidemics (disparate people interactions) long lasting reverberations (eg. african colonialism, govt. by invaders, population ratios) Answering the question justification of domination: understanding the chain of causes. Modernization !> hunting-gathering innate ability natural selection/ evolutionary descent genetics. Iq test measure cultural learning intelligence is based on perspective. European disadvantages: death by disease in dense population (genetics, developmental stunt/ lack of childhood stimulation (cities) Cold climates = invent more/ more time to think.
